Aims
You will:
- be familiar with the discourse context around societal orientation in teaching;
- know & understand the service learning framework and variants;
- be aware of the special features of cooperation with external non-profit partners;
- have ideas for transferring service learning or similar methods to your own teaching practice.
Content
• ESD, transfer, third mission & co.: orientation in the concepts jungle
• Field- specific and cross-disciplinary examples
• The service learning framework: combining engagement and teaching
• Working together with "community partners"
• Successful patterns for implementation
• Support at the University of Basel & beyond
• Collegial coaching for (new) teaching projects
The exact content will be adapted to the requirements of the participants on site.
Methods
Keynote speech, plenary discussion, group and individual exercise, service learning card deck
Target Group
Professors, Lecturers, Teaching Staff, university didactics experts. Upon request: university management in the fields of third mission/social responsibility/sustainability
Requirements
none
About the Trainer
Karsten Altenschmidt (e.g.) is a head of the Zentrum für gesellschaftliches Lernen und soziale Verantwortung (UNIAKTIV) and Coordinator for Service Learning at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). There he works and teaches (on) service learning, community-based research, design thinking and other forms of integrating student engagement with teaching and research.
Feature
Credits in this course can be used for the Higher Education Teaching Certificates: Module Context Higher Education.
The course is offered as part of the Impuls funding program.
Location
Universität Basel, Kollegienhaus Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel
Merzweckraum 035